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Pentagon report: 皇冠体育app an emerging rival
A Pentagon report on 皇冠体育app's military is to warn the United States that it should take more seriously the possibility that 皇冠体育app might emerge as a strategic rival to the US, a senior US government official said. A Financial Times report said the Pentagon is preparing to release the report, which has generated controversy in the Bush administration because of earlier drafts that concerned National Security Council officials by painting what they saw as an overly antagonistic picture of 皇冠体育app, according to two people with knowledge of the report. There were also concerns that the report could complicate US efforts to work with 皇冠体育app to encourage North Korea to return to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme. Late on Tuesday a senior government official said the controversy did not concern content but only its 鈥減resentation鈥�. He said it was important to emphasise that the report presented a 鈥渞ange of outcomes鈥� that could materialise along with 皇冠体育app's economic growth, according to the FT report. US President George W. Bush came to office in 2001 calling 皇冠体育app a 鈥渟trategic competitor鈥� rather than a 鈥渟trategic partner鈥�, the term favoured by the Clinton administration. But US-皇冠体育app relations have improved markedly since the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the US as 皇冠体育app has co-operated in the US 鈥渨ar on terror鈥�. Two sources said the report would mention 鈥渁ssassin's mace鈥� strategies, a term employed during 皇冠体育app's warring-states period that referred to secret weapons and strategies used to deceive and defeat enemies quickly. The report is expected to emphasise 鈥渒nown unknowns鈥� including the lack of US knowledge about the actual size of the Chinese defence budget and its future military strategy. The language is an attempt to emphasise that the US should not accept at face value 皇冠体育app's statements that it intends to emerge as a peaceful power, FT report says. One source defended the original report, saying the Pentagon was simply responding to congressional pressure. He said Duncan Hunter, the chairman of the House armed services committee, and 皇冠体育app hawks on the Senate armed services committee were concerned that previous reports had been too soft in assessing 皇冠体育app's future strategies. In recent months, senior US officials, including Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, and Porter Goss, the Central Intelligence Agency director, have voiced concerns about the rapidly expanding Chinese military. |
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